A new report underscores the significant variations in healthfulness of different types of processed foods. The report, ...

Heart experts say ultra-processed foods could be quietly fueling a global rise in heart disease and early death.

Ultra-processed foods may be doing far more damage than many people realize. A major new European cardiology report warns that people who eat the most ultra-processed foods face significantly higher ...

In the latest episode of our healthy living podcast, our public health nutritionist Shefalee Loth and the founder of ...

Before beginning the experiment, I had to determine the line between processed foods and ultra-processed foods. Technically, any food that has been changed from its natural state is processed—even if ...

The marketers of ultra-processed foods have taken a leaf out of the tobacco industry's playbook to make their foods more addictive.

I recently provided a column on the alarming health status of adolescents in the U.S. There is a close association between many of the negative health outcomes associated with the increasing ...

A group of European scientists has found that ultra-processed foods increase the risk of a range of health conditions, ...

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Despite its widespread use, "ultra-processed" food does not have a universal definition. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he’d like to define it by April. So far, ...

Medically reviewed by Maggie Moon, MS, RD Many packaged snacks are ultra-processed, with a long list of refined grains, added ...